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COVID cases, positivity and hospitalizations begin to plateau as the federal government has fully

muffed the new vaccine rollout. Costco does a giant cannonball into American healthcare,

offering direct primary and mental health care for members. The Federal Trade Commission is

suing a private equity backed anesthesia group for alleged antitrust violations. This is America

Dissected. I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.

You know that apocryphal story at the birth of public health? If you listen to this podcast,

you've heard me tell it several times, but I want to tell it to you just one more.

It's that one about the doctor who, in the middle of a serious color outbreak in London,

in the mid-1800s, figured out that rather than a miasma causing the disease, it was probably

something people were drinking from a specific water pump. That guy, Dr. John Snow,

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